“A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness”
Einstein was on a speaking tour in 1922. When in Tokyo, staying at the Imperial Hotel, a bellboy delivered a package to him. In lieu of a tip, Einstein wrote the words shown above on a piece of hotel stationery.
Einstein advised the bellboy to keep the note because someday its value will be more than a tip.
A century later Einstein was proven right when the bellboy’s nephew contacted a Jerusalem auction house to put the note up for sale recently. It sold for $1,560,000.
Einstein endorses the lifestyle of dull men. A calm and modest life. A life that avoids pressures to constantly to acquire and achieve more —”moreitis.”
This advice is free for us to use. We don’t need to pay $1.3 million.
“Albert Einstein’s secrets for happiness revealed as notes surface after 95 years” — The Telegraph
“Albert Einstein’s ‘Theory of Happiness’ Fetches $1.56 Million” — The New York Times
Albert Einstein’s Quote About Living A Modest Life Sells For $1.3 Million — NPR (National Public Radio in USA)
